Sadie's of New Mexico

Only a few places do green chile sauce that stands alone, with fiery heat and a minimum of sauce thickeners. Chile nirvana can be found northwest of Albuquerque at Sadie's, where the best iteration of the restaurant's many sauces is — interestingly — the vegetarian green chile sauce. The chiles are allowed to blossom into full potency without the richness of meat to distract from them, and the thickened broth base is gluten-free as a bonus.